We had maps that fold thousand times.
Folding maps were the USB-A of it’s age. We would always fold it wrong the first time.
i still get to live that life with blueprints at work
You don’t just roll your technical documents? The plotter makes it pre rolled and so I just let it do that
power company that has been operating for +100 years, we fold the prints and put them in folders to get stored in file cabinets, sometimes i work with prints that are 70 years old
Just the first time? I still have a bunch of my paper maps and I don’t think a single one is folded according to the original design. Turns into origami.
It’s like USB-A on nightmare mode
Fold it the wrong way and it’d eventually start to split
On land, same. When I needed a map on a boat I had a chart table.
For anyone wondering what the heck this thing is, it’s called a roll chart. Usually these are loaded with turn-by-turn instructions for rally racing or similar, but as you can see you can also stick a map in one.
If you’re going to do the map thing it kind of helps for your overall route to be oriented vertically, or else otherwise you have to stick the map in it sideways.
Yeah, i feel like using a map in a roll chart holder doesn’t make a lot of sense.
The endless scrolling of directional notes is the point.
I have seen guys do it, though. I suppose in certain specific scenarios it might make sense. I’m in agreement there, though, I think I’ll give it a pass unless I absolutely have to.
I’ve used maps, but not whatever this is.
What’s it called? I want one.
It’s a map in a roll chart holder. These days they’re used in rally and off road racing, and sometimes motorcycle touring.
“Recalculating.”
twist twist twist roll roll roll
“Recalculating.”
twist roll twist etc.
no but i had a little book.
We had a very hefty book.
Thomas didn’t make lightweight guides.
Mine came with the phone guide, but it was smaller. Maybe 1/4th as thick and half the size.
I had a stack of printed map quest directions. With impossible to read maps because of poor quality printer.
And if you missed one direction you were fucked.
That’s awesome and I kinda want one.
Pre-Google I had a 5-county (Chicago area) map book - a spiral-bound fat book of maps.
I’m thinking about going back to a paper map. Has anyone else had a problem with Google Maps suddenly making insane routing decisions? There are a couple routes I travel often and I check before I leave, mainly for traffic conditions, but have found in the last couple months that Google suggests a completely insane route instead when there isn’t anything to detour around or avoid. It’s almost like routing is now an AI hallucination.
Check your settings, maybe this option is to blame
Just use CoMaps or something else based on OpenStreetMap
That happened a couple times to me lately as well.
No, it’s routing you along businesses who paid for you to be routed along there. They crank up the monetization of maps.
I was certainly a mapbook pro, but, not with one of those.
What in the Ronco is that? I’m a state gazetteer kinda guy. Also used the county street atlas for local getting around.
Cool!
Where’s my Falk crowd?
